"The merit of originality is not novelty; it…" — Thomas Carlyle

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
• Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only… — Steve Ballmer
• You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore
• The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams
• Any good music must be an innovation. — Les Baxter
• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
• It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's… — Tony Benn
• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty… — Jeff Bezos
• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a… — Jeff Bezos
• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is… — William Blake
• What is now proved was once only imagined. — William Blake

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